Christophe Salmon, a former BNP Paribas financier, will take over from Pierre Lorinet in September, the company has said in a statement. "I have decided it is time to take a career break and devote ...

Britain's workers became less productive in the final quarter of 2014, highlighting a significant weakness that has dogged the UK economy for eight years. After a hat trick of good economic news this ...

The door appears to be shutting on a popular means of lower risk tax-efficient investment as the government clamps down on vehicles that benefit from both public subsidies and tax breaks. Investment ...

Charterhouse Capital Partners has highlighted private equity groups' increasing appetite for the education sector after agreeing to pay $2bn for SkillSoft, a US teaching software provider. The ...

Mark Carney said the new European Union bonus cap - which the UK is challenging in the EU court - would have the "undesirable ...

An annual survey of France's 500 wealthiest individuals and families published this week showed their fortunes grew 15 per cent in 2013, news that has added resonance given the huge stir caused by ...

"That event gave me the confidence to realise there were other businesswomen out there." She is not alone in identifying lack of confidence as a key issue which can curb female entrepreneurship.

The George Washington University School of Business has fired its dean, Doug Guthrie, after the scale of a budgetary overspend came to light. In a brief letter to faculty, the university's provost, ...

Business groups have warned against a Scottish National party plan to raise the minimum wage at least in line with inflation, if Scotland votes for independence. Announced last year and included in ...

Saudi Arabia says suspected militants who attacked Shia worshippers earlier this month were linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, known as Isis, in the first acknowledgment of a domestic ...

Former employees of ICAP, Rabobank, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank and UBS were among 22 names that the UK Serious Fraud Office included as alleged co-conspirators on a draft indictment ...

A Singapore trader fired by Royal Bank of Scotland for allegedly manipulating the London interbank lending rate has dropped his lawsuit for wrongful dismissal. RBS said on Wednesday that no payments ...